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10/06/2026
By Ynes Fernandez
Concert ReviewFeatureSURG

Erika de Casier with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, live at the Sydney Opera House

Ynes Fernandez reviews … After coming here a handful of times before in seedier, smaller venues––the Oxford Art Factory for one––the Copenhagener Erika De Casier made her Sydney Opera House debut as part of the Vivid LIVE music program. She brought her drummer, Jonathan Jull Ludvigsen,

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07/06/2026
By Cassidy Newman
FilmOpinionSURG

Rave Culture: A New Era (Australian Premiere) at Vivid LIVE, 31/05/26

Cassidy Newman reviews … Accompanied by a fantastic soundtrack and featuring British rave legends such as RatPack, Fabio, Grooverider, SL2, and Leeroy Thornhill from The Prodigy, Eduardo Cubillo’s Rave Culture: A New Era invites us to travel back in time to when the DJs spun vinyl, the molly

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05/06/2026
By Eliot Tompkins
FeatureFilmSURG

23 seconds to eternity and millenium mambo at vivid live: Eliot Tompkins reviews

23 Seconds to Eternity (Australian Theatrical Premiere) (Bill Butt, 2023) Upon entering a  cinema full of fifty-something year-olds, I was confronted by the understanding that I was entering part of something great that stretched before my time. 23 Seconds to Eternity presents us with several s

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04/06/2026
By Lucy Horton
FeatureFilmSURG

La Haine (Asian Dub Foundation Version) at the Sydney Opera House, 30/05/2026

Lucy Horton reviews … Big night for teen bro-ey sensibilities. Coulda been bigger –– their arbiters were there in spirit, but were probably the sparsest demographic in the Playhouse Theatre on Saturday: a fairly older crowd with a solid slice of twenty-somethings.  A young man, Abdel, is

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27/05/2026
By Ronan Linsley
Concert ReviewFeatureSURG

mariners and woodsmen: salem, live at the sydney opera house 22/05/26

Feature Image: ‘snake eyes’ by John Holland. Ronan Linsley reviews … Emerging from the haunting pinelands comprising the state of Michigan is one of our generation’s most defining sounds. Equal parts melodic, harsh, and transcendent, SALEM have cemented themselves in the zeitgeis

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23/05/2026
By Cappy Hall
Concert ReviewFeatureSURG

When I’m in an awesome gig competition and my opponent is Loathe: cappy hall reviews

Cappy Hall reviews Loathe at the Metro Theatre, 14/05/26

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10/05/2026
By Calista Burrowes
FeatureMusicOpinionSURG

The Kneecap Boys are Back in Town 

calista burrowes reviews fenian What do you do when it seems like the whole world is against you? Do you retreat into obscurity? Do you just send it and live up to the villainy people assign to you? Kneecap does not have a fully grounded answer just yet, but FENIAN is their interim response to [&hel

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10/05/2026
By Elise Martin
NewsOpinionSURG

WHAT’S NEXT FOR 2SER?

Elise Martin attends… Beloved community radio station 2SER is grappling with the big question––what comes next?––as the July deadline for an alternative funding source to save the station rapidly approaches.  2SER has served as a cultural pillar of the community for nearly 45 year

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08/05/2026
By Lucy Horton & Charlotte Macdonald
Concert ReviewFeatureMusicSURG

john maus at the metro theatre, 30/04/2026

Fanged Numinous. Bangs Numerous. Today was a lot of explaining, to various barristers and housemates, what retro-futuristic darkwave organum-pop might sound like: Hollow. Sparkly. Eerie. Sweaty. Drony. Avant-garde … where the ‘guard’ is one of any conventions of contemporary pop music, an

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30/03/2026
By Angus Piper
Concert ReviewFeatureMusicShowsSURG

All Stirr’d UP

Angus piper reviews: stirr, live at the union hotel 21/03/226 Guitars unorthodoxly utter. The saxophone wails while the vocals clarify the chaos. This is Stirr, live at The Union Hotel for the single release of ‘Broken Arm’. At the Courty for pres, the tables were still drying. You could hear sh

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